Category Archive: Generating Traffic

I have just written an article over on my other blog, MattHouldsworth.com about how I promote each blog post after I publish it. Much of what you read on the net about promoting your blog takes a holistic view point, however, in my opinion you also need to look after the finer detail, if your …

Youtube now boasts an amazing billion videos watched every day. In fact, Youtube is now the second largest search engine, just behind Google. If that wasn’t enough, since Google owns Youtube, they place a high rank on videos appearing in their search engines. Because of these facts, your business could be using Youtube to effectively …

I took some time this evening to analyze the keywords that people have been using to find this site and I was interested to note that Google has picked this site for definitions of several keywords. For those of you that done know, in Google if you do a search for ‘Define: keyword’ rather than …

As another post in my series about my Google Ranking Monitoring Software. Over the last week or so I have extended this to include Alexa Ranking, Yahoo Back Links and Google Back links, I will be posting a new version very soon. However this work has got me thinking about how you monitor and judge the …

The Google Rank Monitor Software I launched a few days ago has raised some discussions as to what page rank to monitor. The software actually allows you to enter the exact URL that you wish to monitor, therefore if you want you can monitor several sections or individual pages on a site. This has lead …

Yesterday an email came through from one of the affiliate programs I market. You know the ones, changes in terms, changes in commission structures, more often than not reducing the amount of commission they are giving. The have the right to do this as much as we have the right to stop selling their products …

I’ve recently advertised for a freelancer to generate some links for Break Away Holiday Cottages, I have asked that these links be on sites with a page rank of above 3. I have also asked for some blog posts and comments to include a link back to my site. I have given details of the …

The Alexa rank of this site has improved this month from 1003979 to 810467 dropping 200,000. Looking at the weekly average it is set to drop at least the same again, if not more. This proves the work that has been put in to network and market the site is working and also reflects the …

In many of the articles on this site you will have seen me banging on about the quality of traffic or the importance of getting quality traffic. It is about time that I wrote a little about what we mean by quality traffic and how we can start generating that quality traffic. What is Quality …

When you read the articles on this site or any similar site you will always see that everything we do surrounds getting traffic, not only that but getting quality traffic, by quality traffic we mean getting visitors to your site who are interested in the subject of your site, you are reading this very article …